Common Floweringqince Fruit ( Mu Gua)

Action:

Relaxes the sinews and dredges the channels

• For stiffness and spasms of the sinews, muscular stiffness and spasms, and muscular atrophy. This is one of the best herbs for relaxing the sinews. Also for the weakness and pain in the lower back.

Regulates the stomach and resolves dampness

• For abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhoea and nausea. Also for cramps of the calves, and edema in the legs.

Note:

Use with caution for person suffering from hyperacidity, food accumulation and stagnation. Excessive consumption may damage the teeth.

Quality Herb:

• The good one has a compact, shrunken surface, with thick pulp, reddish in colour, and is sour.

Indian Bread (Fu Ling) (Poria)

Excerpt from book...

'Fu Ling has always been regarded as a nourishing food well-liked by people. It is old Empress Dowager Ci Xi's favourite snack.

According to legend, Ci Xi suffered from weak health and a poor appetite. The imperial chefs racked their brains to selet medicial herbs that helped to invigorate the spleen and promote appetite. They found out about the uses of poria. Hence, they used pine nuts, peach kernel, sweet osmanthus flower and honey as the main ingredients, and mixed with an appropriate amount of poria powder. Ci Xi was very pleased with the recipe and would offer poria pastry as a form of reward for court officials. Thus, poria cake become a popular imperial pastry. '

That's how fu ling became popular.

Uses of fu ling

• Drains dampness and reduces swelling.


• Promotes urination


• Relieves phlegm

Quality Herb

The good one is heavy, hard and compact, sticky, with a white fine core; the outer skin is brown, with striattions but no fissures.

Slenderstyle Acanthopanax Bark (Wu Jia Pi)

Action:

• Dispels wind and dampness in Bi syndrome, strengthens tendons and bones.
  
• Treats deficiency in the liver and kidney
  
• For elderly, or children with weak bones and tendons.
  
• Alleviates dampness and swelling in the limbs resulting in feeble gait.
  
• Relieves water retention in the face and body, and pain in urinating.
  
• For edema in limbs of cold-dampness type.
  
• For threatened miscarriage with vaginal bleeding arising from yin deficiency of the liver and kidney.

Note:

Use with caution in the person with hyperactivity fire due to yin deficiency.

Relieving Wind

The newly launched Essential Chinese Medicine Book is out. 'Relieving Wind'
This book focuses on rheumatism, what type of medicine is suitable for rheumatism.
Why is 'fu ling' (Indian Breand) famous?



This book will cover the following.


Antirheumatic Herbs

• Antirheumatic herbs for expelling cold


• Antirheumtic herbs for clearing heat


• Antirheumatic herbs for strengthening bones
  

Diuretic Herbs

• Diuretic herbs for relieving edema


• Diuretic herbs for treating stranguria
  
• Diuretic herbs for reliving jaundice

Interior-Warming Herbs


Medicinal Cooking.